^Smythe, Viv. I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened. 衛報. 2018-11-28 [2022-10-28]. (原始内容存档于2020-01-25). Due to a short series of blogposts from 2008, I have retrospectively been credited as the coiner of the acronym "Terf" (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) ... a shorthand to describe one cohort of feminists who self-identify as radical and are unwilling to recognise trans women as sisters, unlike those of us who do.
^Lewis, Sophie. Opinion | How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans. The New York Times. 2019-02-07 [2019-05-05]. ISSN 0362-4331. (原始内容存档于2019-11-15) (美国英语). If the idea that transphobic harassment could be "feminist" bewilders you, you are not alone. ... With time, the term TERF has become a catchall for all anti-trans feminists, radical or not.
^Miller, Edie. Why Is British Media So Transphobic?. The Outline. 2018-11-05 [2019-05-03]. (原始内容存档于2019-10-19) (英语). The truth is, while the British conservative right would almost certainly be more than happy to whip up a frenzy of transphobia, they simply haven't needed to, because some sections of the left over here are doing their hate-peddling for them. The most vocal source of this hatred has emerged, sadly, from within circles of radical feminists. British feminism has an increasingly notorious TERF problem. ... The application of the term has shifted somewhat over time to encompass most people espousing trans-exclusionary politics that follow a particular "TERF logic," regardless of their involvement with radical feminism.
^Vasquez, Tina. It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women. Bitch (Bitch Media). 2014-02-17 [2019-04-13]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-13). [Cathy] Brennan, fellow attorney Elizabeth Hungerford, and other modern-day feminists continue to actively question the inclusion of trans people in women's spaces. These feminists refer to themselves as "radical feminists" or "gender critical feminists." In 2008, trans women and trans advocates started referring to this group as "trans-exclusionary radical feminists" or TERFs, a term Brennan considers a slur.